Broken Timelines ✔️

Sara - A Tale of Cyan

I amble up the winding path to the peak of Mt Ebott, angry tears streaming my face. How dare they do this! My own parents! Forcing me into the streets like an orphan! God, it's like I'm adopted. How can someone not care about their own child? How?! Ugh. I hate them. I honestly hate them.
My long white hair whips angrily about in the fierce wind, and I pull my ice blue trench coat around me tighter. I pull my toy knife from my pocket and untie the ribbon from the handle. It was a present from Chef. He always was more of a father to me than my actual father. Using the ribbon, I tie my hair back and I can see again. My cyan eyes dart around, looking for the bench on Mt Ebott that overlooks the kingdom my parents live in. As a teenage female, I was expected to marry a suitor of my parent's choice. I was chosen to marry the blacksmyhte's son. Ugh. He was too lower class for me. My pink boots catch on a rock and I stumble, putting out my white gloved hands to catch my fall.

But I kept falling.

And falling.

And falling.

And falling.

Until I hit a mound of freshly dug soil. My head hits them hard enough to make me black out. But before I black out, I feel a strange shift in my body. Almost as if my reason for living is being centred in my heart.

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I awaken from my black out with a serious headache. I guess the legends are true. Children who wander up Mt Ebott past nightfall do disappear. I guess the fall kills most children... I glance around for bones and notice the uprooted soil. I wonder if whoever lives down here buries all the dead children in the spot they land...
I scrabble up and dart off of the mound, noticing a slight pain in my left leg. Nothing more than a sprain, clearly. Looking around, I notice I have fallen into a deep cavern in the Mountain. How... fun. I wonder if I can escape any way... Oh. There's a small corridor to the side of this large cavern. Glancing back at the dirt pile, I notice a bone sticking out, glowing a light blue. The same colour as my eyes. Huh. Weird.

I stroll along the corridor and enter a dark doorway that leads to a dismal antechamber. I jog through that quite quickly. It reminds me of the dingy corridor that leads to my Father's study back in our manor home. I'm not too keen on that corridor. I remember one of the serving girls fell down outside Father's study one time and he hit her so hard she had bruises for weeks. Huh. Passing through the doorway I could barely see, I was lead to a grand stone staircase, almost identical to the one in my house. Ugh. This place reminds me too much of home. And yet, it seems comfy. There is a pile of red leaves at the bottom of the staircase, and I can't help but jump in them. Playfully jumping in the ruby leaves fills me with a sense of happiness. I think, so long as I am patient, I can flee this place and return above ground. So I jump up the stairs and twirl around, dancing to a silent tune. It plays on in my head as I head onwards through a smaller room with nothing in it, and only leads to a larger corridor with two small rivers in. I sit by the rivers of fresh water and take off my pink boots, splashing my feet in the clear water. I lay back and smile. It's quite peaceful down here. I might like to stay awhile...

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I must of fallen asleep with my feet in the water, but for how long I cannot say. The lighting here is constant purple. Not my favourite colour but it's sorta pretty once your eyes have adjusted. I wiggle my toes which seem to of fallen asleep too. I giggle lightheartedly and slip my socks and boots back on and continue on the path. I pass through several similar corridors, one consisting of a large wooden bridge over a lake, and one being the longest corridor ever! I swear I was going mad! It stretched onwards for years! But I remain patient and continue onwards anyways. It's pleasantly warm in these caverns, so I slip from my trench coat, leaving myself in my white and black dress. I reach a room with three piles of the ruby leaves and I leap around for ages, playing and having fun. Heh, I could be a lighthearted child if I wanted to!

Suddenly, the world goes black, and for a moment I'm scared I have knocked myself out somehow. A frog-like creature appears in front of me. Wait, am I me? I feel... different. I look down at myself, expecting to see my adorable dress and boots ensemble, and see only
Blue. I've turned into a blue heart. A floating blue heart. I panic, but I can't move. Seeing four buttons in front of me, I reach out for the MERCY option, and breath a sigh of relief when I see a FLEE option. I quickly escape, and decide to head through the door to the bottom right of the room. I pass through a room with some sand that made me fall down if I stepped on it, but figured out the puzzle easily, a room with a solitary rock in it that said hello as I passed- that made me jump if I'm honest- a room with a falling sand puzzle, a room with three rocks (none said hello this time) a room with more leaves, and a room with four of those frog things just staring at me. I didn't stop my running (well, light jogging. I'm a tad lazy you see) until I reached a room with six pitfall traps. I walk up to the top left one, but decide not to fall. The door at the far right end of the corridor is open. There's no need to go down each one. As I jog to the central path, I trip up on a rock that I swear wasn't there before, and I go falling down the bottom left pitfall trap. But I wasn't quick enough to put my hands out, and I fell straight on my head. My ribbon fell out of my hair, and I felt sharp pain.

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Everything went black. I was looking at my floating cyan heart, and as it started to shake it was placed in a jar by a Froggit, who hopped away quickly. I noticed a shadowy figure follow the Froggit and hold out his hand towards my heart thingy. I think it's my SOUL. His holey skeleton hand absorbed the cyan glow from around the SOUL and I felt myself being pulled into his handy hole thing too. I felt my patience glow stronger, and I became a little grey heart.

And that's how Gaster kept me for a while. Only a while though. Eventually, I forgot who I was. Who am I? Oh yes. Gaster placed me inside the glowing cyan bone I had seen at the mound of dirt, and he threw my SOUL and this bone into some snow. I transmorphed into a skeleton. The skeleton I am today. Heh.

Hey Kiddo. My name's Sans. Sans the Skeleton.